Greensleeves and Pudding Pies ( Playford), on mandolin
This is an English country dance tune from the seventh edition of Playford s Dancing Master (1686), also under the alternative title Greensleeves and Yellow Lace. Played on my MidMissouri M0W mandolin. The Fiddler s Companion says: GREEN SLEEVES, SLIEVS AND PUDDING PIES, PYS 4 ( Muincilli Uaitne or Muintide Glas ). AKA and see Green Sleeves, : Green Sleeves and Yellow Lace, Little English, Scottish, Irish; Double Jig and Country Dance Tune (6, 8 time). G Dorian (Raven): G Minor (Barnes, Raven): A Minor (Cole, O Neill): E Minor (Kines). Standard tuning. One part (Kines): AABB (Barnes, O Neill, Raven): AABB (Alburger): AABBCC (Johnson). From the Margaret Sinkler MS. , 1710. It was registered with the Stationer s Company in 1580 (an early method of trying to secure a publication so that no one could copy it) as A new Northern Dittye. To Shakespeare, as well as to Margaret Sinkl br, br,
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